Some fights are unavoidable, unless you would rather surrender or run away. The idea that we can end terrorism by treating everyone with "respect" is naïve.
Allow me to disagree on that. In order to end with terrorism on your country, you have to get to the root of the problem. What is it?, why are the people of the middle east so angered against your country/government/people?
Is it because they hate your "way of living"/culture? (as your government wants to make you believe). I really doubt it. See, I am from the poor country which sits at the south of yours (I am assuming you are from USA). I am from Mexico. One of the things that bothers me (a bit, as I run on the same tunnel a lot of times) is how we (Mexicans) love to imitate the American lifestyle. Hell, you just have to see the spark in the eyes of some Asian guys wen they ask me if I have been to America. America is cool for other people.
So, it is not your culture as the culture in my country is trying *so hard* to be like yours.
Then, what could it be?, what could conutries like Mexico, France, Canada (not sure about them), Japan, Brazil, Chile have been doing to avoid these terrorism attacks, hey, I guess, no.. I am positively SURE that the security systems in my country does not compare to the super technological security here in UK or in the USA.
My country cant afford that, neither Chile or Brazil can do it.
So, what I can tell you is that none of your gadgets/law-bills will help.
It is my view that what you [your government of course] should do to avoid being "terrorized" is to stop puttin gtheir noses everywhere. Leave other countries alone. Spain learnt the hard way, but HEY THEY LEARNT!!!.
It seems UK and USA government hasnt learnt (because they dont want to I guess).
btw, as one sig I read said, dont mod me down just because you dont agree with my opinions:-)
I know that people will say functionality should take precedence but I
Hey, look at the picture you linked again.
From my point of view, a set of 9 menues, each one with (an average of) 7 subitems of which (approximatly) 2 of them are submenues with (on average) more than 10 options (which some of them are submenues =oS) is not what I call something "functional".
Thats the primary reason why the *ribbon* exists.
The menu-bar paradigm is OLD older than me and older than lots of you. This has to be changed NOW. just look at our firefox menubar now, there are hundreds of hidden options on those menues. You MUST have "a master on computers" [John Doe's slang] to use all that.
Please, if there is anyone that develops open source window managers or something like that, please try to use something different instead of the menu-bar, why not remapping that menubar as a web-2.0 "cloud" which makes some options bigger than others.
Darn, I would mod you informative if I could (of course I posted the GP).
This was the most (only?) useful answer, from the more than 15 answers I got. I have already edited my.vimrc with this and I feel it is like 100% more intuitive.
Of course, after looking at the Latex possibilities, I'll still use Kile or Eclipse to develop... VIM is my text editor of choice however.
So from the article it seems Vim 7 is very powerful. I have tried to use vi several times but I just cant get used to the keys. I even have right here a "Vi editor Cheat Sheet" printed in small text as a card to have handy at my computer side.
I know the best way to learn to use Vim is to use it every day. My main editing tasks everyday are Latex processing and Java development. Usually I use Kile and Eclipse to solve my problems. As you can see I something like an IDE wore (wow). But I really would like to learn Vi (please I am not trolling).
I remember I once read about a Latex pluing or environment for Vi, but I found it a bit difficult to use it. Maybe i am making the wrong approach or something.
On the other side, why is it that the cursor move keys are HJKL when the touchtyping home keys are JKL; that is something that has always give me problems, I would feel more confortable having the JKL; as cursor because thats the place where I have my fingers (I touch type pretty quickly, thats one of the reasons I like to learn Vim, because of the reduced keyboard usage).
BTW, if anyone needs these tips, use CTRL+[ for ESC and CTRL+M for new line, this will prevent you from moving your hands (if you touch type of course) to weird places where those keys are. Oh and CTRL+H is the same as backspace...
Let's start a holy war over how many icons can dance on a screen.
I agree. I myself dont like having more than the minimum of icons in the desktop, I almost never use them. I have a panel (self hiding) on the right with icons of the applicacions I use often (konsole, firefox, kalc, kedit, eclipse, jabref, evolution). On my windows laptop my start menu/bar is also on the right side. It is a bit bigger than the the length of the "start" button, I have some submenues [folders which you can make cascade with a registry option] with applications like Audio, Internet, Office, Video, Software and Hardware. On those folders I put shortcuts to the apps in the start menu, personally I also cant stand the START/PRGRAMS/ALL PROGRAMS/MY PROGRAM/PROGRAM mouse movement, and I dont like the way the programs menu gets clutered after you install all the applications so I have the same submenues there.
Having said that, I have seen people that use the desktop to group their programs. I certainly remember when I was using a friends computer who had all the icons in the desktop arranged in certain way (which for me seemed nonsensical), and i remember his frustration after I selected the "arrange icons automagically" haha...
I would like to say thank you to Schmuck5000 for letting us in on how utterly dumb and senseless the mind of a cheater can be. I am sure all our faithful
I agree with parent, the interview is stupid, it is just one person whining because the 'cheater' beat him. I agree that what would be interesting is to interview the developers of the cheats.
However, the reason why the people develop cheats is just because there is demand for cheats. So in a sense this cheater has a point, there is people who wants to cheat, it has been like that since the GameGear times of the NES (or before).
My first cheat was with the Price of Persia game on the PC, I remember looking the PRINCE.SAV file on Xtree Gold and editing it in Hex mode (without knowing what it was, just hacking my way trough it) to have more lives and time. Oh, and to bypass the manual letter verifiaciton =o)
Do you have a mouse on your computer? The wiimote isn't much more than a pointer.
It is because of people like you that science does not develop =oP.
The difference is that this "pointer & gyros" will come togheter will dozens of games *specially* designed to exploit its capabilities.
I am sure there are already input devices with gyroscopes and other more interesting technologies available for computers, but the difference (and that is what can make a console *better* than a computer for gaming) is that because of a standarized input, every game studio can (and will) use the input method to improve the gameplay of its game.
And input my friend is what really differentiates a computer game from an animation (not that lots of game developers are aware of it as they continue to add thousands of cutscenes like Metal Gear Solid 2 [darn that game was so boring, each step you gave you would have to watch a 30 seconds movie...]).
The notion that one learns more about, say, ancient Greek philosophy cramming for an exam than by researching and writing 25 pages on the influences of various presocratics on Platonic thought, is preposterous. The idea that, in a course on the practical use of statistics in the election process, one should test students rather than making them run their own polls, is misguided. Students learn by doing, and in most academic fields, doing means research and writing. Many college courses need fewer tests, not more.
I agree with you in general terms. When I was in high school, I had a physics teacher that always gave us the exam "take away". It was only one or two problems, but they were real life problems so "open ended" that you could solve them in many ways (of course applying whatever you were learning on that month, like Ohms law or the pendulum movement theory).
It was reallly cool because even tough we (students) could get togheter and search on the internet (back then when it was not full of shite) how to do it you *really* had to understand the problem and at the end to apply the formulae.
The teacher never said he didnt care if we memorised the formulae, he just wanted us to understand the process.
I believe that is the way to test. As the article (well, the summary cause I didnt really read the article) says, the current system is similar to that of security trough obscurity, and we all know that does not works, there will always be a student who is smart enough to bypass the current security measures. And moreso, some students (like myself I have to confess) will find more entertaining to spend their time bypassing the security measures instead of studying for the subject.
So, am I missing something. Aren't most of you complaining about these RIAA suits advocating theft? Or if not advocating, ignoring theft?
Hello,
From you post I can cleary see that you are indeed missing something. See, copyright infringement DOES NOT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO with theft.
So, from there I could just take down all your arguments, but yeah, I agree that it is wrong to do unauthorized reproduction and distribution of electronic and audio-visual media".
The problem here is the argument of the record companies, which say that each shared file directly causes revenue loss. That is completely incorrect.
Then of course come the issue of the extorsion practices they are doing and all of that, but of course it is a problem for people in the USA to do something to stop the company from doing that (of course only if they want).
As for "the artist", they have nothing to do with what is happening. The ones that sing the songs which are being claimed by the RIAA companies have no rights over the content, they gave all the distribution (copy in copyright) to the corporations, so they should just shut up and continue to perform.
y making a 'profitable', underpowered, overpriced console they are going to loose a lot of cross platform publishers.
Sir, agree completely with you in that the Wii will make some publishers loose, at their stomach of course.
Other than that, I cant find a relation between those two concepts. More publishers will be attracted to the Wii ifnot for anything else for the mere dev kit price, and as everybody says, those "cross platform" publishers have certainly used the GameCube already, so (as Wii bashers love to say) being the Wii a reboxed gamecube with a fancy controller they wont need a lot of effort to port their game to such platform.
And about your calculations, what makes you even think that the console costed $200 to make?, if I recall correctly one analyst predicted the price to be $180 after looking for the harware used so hey, they are screwing you more! muwahahah.
Not that I care, what I care is that the Wii is the ONLY console that will allow me to play something that I can not play in my computer. I know that maybe the HaloXXXMegaBox360-2 wont be available for my PC but at the end it is just another FPS played with the typical controller (w00t I've got a £10 PS2 like controller from GAME).
Also, the Wii stupid sport games that (I have been reading) a lot of people think are not as valuable as one game, is in fact what some of those non-gamers...
(including, my mother, a greek friend who is archeologist and didnt even know how to turn on a computer when she started her master one year ago), my girlfriend (granted, she does plays GBA and mario party/mario tennis with me in 1964))... are looking forward to see, this 'half assed' games will allow ALL OF US (hardcore,softcore,noncore) gamers to *learn* to use the controller in a friendly way (how many times I have tried to master the FPS controller just to be 707411! PWN3D by my brother who is a Playstation fan.
The coolest thing (for me), is that it was since SNES that my mother played Pilot Wings and Mario Kart, but she found it too complicated, now with the Wii I have a chance to play along her again! and this time Nintendo is pushing to do everything they can to make her ENJOY the game =o).
Just as a comment, I once stupidly made my machine hijacked my crapware (can you believe I actually ran the "crack.exe" file that comes with the astalavista cracks =oS) and had to spend almost 4 hours cleaning my computer.
I used lots of anti cracpware programs that certainly cleaned a lot of things but my machine kept getting infected.
After some time I dont know why I searched in the "Screen properties" (dont remember the exact name as I am in Linux now), where you right click the desktop and then properties.
That will show you a window with desktop and screen properties but there is also a tab that lets you configure the "Active Desktop" thing in which you can make a web page you desktop page. Well, the problem was that the trojan installed a web page as active desktop (with my same background so I could not notice), but this page had some javascript code that kept infecting the computer.
I thing it was quite clever and since none of the anti spamware (ad aware, hijack this, MS-shitdefender, Freeav, avg, clamwin, etc) recognized it, I believe my comment might help someone avoid some headache.
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Pricing. They said it would be under $250. When companies say that, it'll probably be $249.99. Which it basically is:) I'm sure they contemplated $199, $229, but decided for launch, they could probably get people to pay $249, but they'll also include a game. That's a business decision, which for the most part makes sense. It'll probably sell out at launch anyhow.
Darn, for me, this $250 price tag only means that I will have to pay something like £190 (~$358.817 USD xe.com) for the darn thing... I *am* really looking forward to get a M!! but £200 is what I was expecting to spend on my "Wii buying day" getting the wii, one game and maybe another controller...
That is why I am sad about the pricing. Lets wait for the London conference...
The Wii.com english section is UP NOW!! (you read it here first =op)
Unfortunately for me I am using Linux and I can not see the videos ("javascript and flash are used in this contents, you need to upgrade you Flash player...)
Too bad the article doesn't mention the large range of live CD/DVD distributions available for try-before-you-fly, or the range of Windows applications tested and working under Wine."
I would say, TOO GOOD that they didn't do it. I am sure that any user having the slightest curiosity of ditching windows will be overwhelmed after looking at more than 500 (or lets say 40 "main") linux distributions.
Or sure tell them how "tested and working" are those Windows applications under "Wine", so that when after they install their preffered linux distro and say, "okay now how do I install my 'tested and working' Winamp on Linux" their head will explode searching at zillions of forums/faqs/howtos/irc/etc.
The *only * way a WinApp-in-Wine would work is as google did it with picasa (i.e. the company will have to make something) or that a Linux company like Linsipre added such applications to their Click'n'Run service (of course they would have to buy licenses to each of the software they will sell). I like this idea a lot.
Only a matter of time till both Apple and MS initiate lawsuits on those that cracked their DRM. No doubt aided and abetted by the **AA. The silver lining is that if this gets to the SC, the DMCA *might* get struck down as unconstitutional.
Cracked DRM? where? What this program does is something similar to dump some part of the memory in your machine into a file. It does not cracks anything, it does not modify any program, it is not any key generator, it just dumps a section of your computer memory into the disk.
Guess what, Microsoft Office does exactly that when you click the "save document" function. =o)
After all would you buy your antivirus from the same guys who seem incapable of preventing their OS being succeptable in the first place?
I agree with you on that, see, Linux does not have any antivirus program (well, just the ones that scan for Windows viruses). However, you do not read about virus spreading on it.
What Microsoft should do is make their operating system secure, I mean, Linux and Apple have done it, it is possible.
Not only have played some really good (as in well developed) games but I have also used (programmed) on DirectX and OpenGL enough to know that DirectX is a really good achievement of Microsoft. I am completely aware, for example, that DirectX > OpenGL in that it provides a complete multimedia SDK (Solution is the buzz^Wkeyword), whereas OpenGL provides only the 3D component.
I have worked also with the Linux equivalents, say SDL and Allegro and in my opinion no one of them is 40% as good as DirectX. Of coruse that fact is also due to the operating system support (joystic support, force feedback, unconventional input metods, media format support AND robustness).
But the fact is that, even tough DirectX is a very nice a SDK, I can testify that starting a project with it does qualify as a great problem, of course the same can be said for the other APIs, but I would describe them as "series of small problems" that may or may not be bigger than the DirectX problem when combined.
At least, in my experience, I find better (easier for me) to cope with the one huge beast than with the miriad of small penguins, mainly because with the beast I can go to one specific place to look for solutions, examples and help overall, whereas with OpenGL-SDL-OpenAL-Allegro-SDL_mixer-SDL_TTF-freety pe-???? STACK-OVERFLOW
What makes you think that any of the RIAA money goes to the artists?
Yeah, thats completely true, what the original poster should have wrote is "paying to the copyright owners".
Unfortunately for the artists, they conceded all the rights of their creations to the recording industries when they signed those contracts, so, the recording corporations are in their right to protect THEIR intellectual property.
I wonder how long would it take until artists wake up and see how hard are music corporations screwing them...
It goes to pay the record labels, who don't give one red cent to the artists (after all, it's not in their contracts.)
You hit the nail, it is that way and it must be that way, artists SIGN AWAY their rights when they enter into a contract wiht the recording house. They just care about creating a specific number of albums to fulfill the contract.
Everything that happens after that is the music corporation problem, of course these corporations sell them the image that they will "fight" for their (artists) rights, but the truth other.
Its software is buggy, overpriced, and stress inducing.
Man, I could not agree more with this... just now I am trying to save my girlfriend's notebook Windows Home installation. I just received a DVB USB dongle, installed it on mine (winxp) and after that tried to install it on my girlfriends notebook. Unfortunately the installation was unsuccesful due to the ether (i.e. just *because*), and after I restarted the machine showed the BSOD and restarted (woops, driver programs...)
I tried to recover the installation with a Windows Home installation disk i have (you know, proceed as a normal install until it ask you if u want to fix the installed system), and after doing that now the #"$"#$"!#$ FUCKER !#!"%% windows asks me for my serial number... I enter the serial number UNDER the laptop and the fuck says it is not valid WHAT THE FUCK IT IS IN THE FREAKING STICKER UNDER THE NOTEBOOK...
Of course now I downloaded the XP key recover and discover app which I am running in my notebook to get a valid WIN XP HOME serial, then I will enter it and validate the program, and then I will crack the WGA.
Fuck, and what enrages me is that I have a fucking license to instlal windows Home... My installation disk actually constains WIN xp pro and win xp home... and I installed xp Home because tha tis what the notebook had... I am not pirating or nothing I just want it to work....
So next time some fucking moron says that windows just work they are just saying bullshit... unfortunately, I also have Ubuntu in my latop and of course the DVB usb dongle wont work with it (at least not until configure make make install compile kernel gcc''+p'ppo ó+++-p --path ----prefix ) so, Windows is the best option (no I dont have the money to buy a Mac)
Oh, and I just thought that, I dont know if the USB DVB dongle I bought work in Linux so maybe it would be impossible to use it there (it is an ebay cheapo usb-dvb dongle). Does anyone know anything about the compatiblity of those things?
I would really love to test this PVR thing as I have read a lot about them but have never used one of them (I dont watch almost any TV... usually just rent movies via screenselet).
Hey, first of anything I was not trolling (dont understand why the mod...).
The main difference is that it is *your* country.
If everyone who doesn't like it left, it's unlikely to change.
I agree with you 100%. It is one of the reasons I went out of my country (sounds contradictory no?) to pursue a PhD; it is beacuse I want to be an expert in a field that is not fully exploited in my own country, in order to return and be an "asset" and have the tools to put my grain of sand to make it better.
I dont believe in politics (ha, I always have loved that Buscemi's line in Reservoir dogs), but I do believe in that if everyone of us concentrated in making work everything will work.
So, I applaud you for trying to change your country. As I stated in my previous "trolly" post, I dont like your government (which does not mean I dislike Americans, I have had really nice friends, actually I just sent a card [via snail mail] to a friend in USA =o)). But it would have no sense (at least that is what I think) to go to live in the USA and keep bitching about the government and actively trying to boycott it, i.e. It is not MY buisness.
All I want to know is, is where is the win32 version? this would be SWEET running on WinME!
I dont understand why the funny mod...
I have just bought a DVB usb dongle for my Notebook and I would like to try it out. I have Kubuntu installed, however it is very unstable and I usually only log in to "play" with it (wireless does not work, graphics card incompatible, etc etc etc...).
So I would have the same question, is there any kind of Win32 version?, now that I think about it, MythTV would be excellent for a "Vmware Appliance", is there anything like that out?>
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Some fights are unavoidable, unless you would rather surrender or run away. The idea that we can end terrorism by treating everyone with "respect" is naïve.
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Allow me to disagree on that. In order to end with terrorism on your country, you have to get to the root of the problem. What is it?, why are the people of the middle east so angered against your country/government/people?
Is it because they hate your "way of living"/culture? (as your government wants to make you believe). I really doubt it. See, I am from the poor country which sits at the south of yours (I am assuming you are from USA). I am from Mexico. One of the things that bothers me (a bit, as I run on the same tunnel a lot of times) is how we (Mexicans) love to imitate the American lifestyle. Hell, you just have to see the spark in the eyes of some Asian guys wen they ask me if I have been to America. America is cool for other people.
So, it is not your culture as the culture in my country is trying *so hard* to be like yours.
Then, what could it be?, what could conutries like Mexico, France, Canada (not sure about them), Japan, Brazil, Chile have been doing to avoid these terrorism attacks, hey, I guess, no.. I am positively SURE that the security systems in my country does not compare to the super technological security here in UK or in the USA.
My country cant afford that, neither Chile or Brazil can do it.
So, what I can tell you is that none of your gadgets/law-bills will help.
It is my view that what you [your government of course] should do to avoid being "terrorized" is to stop puttin gtheir noses everywhere. Leave other countries alone. Spain learnt the hard way, but HEY THEY LEARNT!!!.
It seems UK and USA government hasnt learnt (because they dont want to I guess).
btw, as one sig I read said, dont mod me down just because you dont agree with my opinions
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"One would hope that as Sony is more agnostic on video formats than MS"
Yeah, the beta-minidisc-umd-stickproduo may have taught them something
but then again...
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I know that people will say functionality should take precedence but I
Hey, look at the picture you linked again.
From my point of view, a set of 9 menues, each one with (an average of) 7 subitems of which (approximatly) 2 of them are submenues with (on average) more than 10 options (which some of them are submenues =oS) is not what I call something "functional".
Thats the primary reason why the *ribbon* exists.
The menu-bar paradigm is OLD older than me and older than lots of you. This has to be changed NOW. just look at our firefox menubar now, there are hundreds of hidden options on those menues. You MUST have "a master on computers" [John Doe's slang] to use all that.
Please, if there is anyone that develops open source window managers or something like that, please try to use something different instead of the menu-bar, why not remapping that menubar as a web-2.0 "cloud" which makes some options bigger than others.
Darn, I would mod you informative if I could (of course I posted the GP).
.vimrc with this and I feel it is like 100% more intuitive.
This was the most (only?) useful answer, from the more than 15 answers I got. I have already edited my
Of course, after looking at the Latex possibilities, I'll still use Kile or Eclipse to develop... VIM is my text editor of choice however.
thank you very much indeed!
So from the article it seems Vim 7 is very powerful. I have tried to use vi several times but I just cant get used to the keys. I even have right here a "Vi editor Cheat Sheet" printed in small text as a card to have handy at my computer side.
I know the best way to learn to use Vim is to use it every day. My main editing tasks everyday are Latex processing and Java development. Usually I use Kile and Eclipse to solve my problems. As you can see I something like an IDE wore (wow). But I really would like to learn Vi (please I am not trolling).
I remember I once read about a Latex pluing or environment for Vi, but I found it a bit difficult to use it. Maybe i am making the wrong approach or something.
On the other side, why is it that the cursor move keys are HJKL when the touchtyping home keys are JKL; that is something that has always give me problems, I would feel more confortable having the JKL; as cursor because thats the place where I have my fingers (I touch type pretty quickly, thats one of the reasons I like to learn Vim, because of the reduced keyboard usage).
BTW, if anyone needs these tips, use CTRL+[ for ESC and CTRL+M for new line, this will prevent you from moving your hands (if you touch type of course) to weird places where those keys are. Oh and CTRL+H is the same as backspace...
Let's start a holy war over how many icons can dance on a screen.
I agree. I myself dont like having more than the minimum of icons in the desktop, I almost never use them. I have a
panel (self hiding) on the right with icons of the applicacions I use often (konsole, firefox, kalc, kedit, eclipse, jabref, evolution). On my windows laptop my start menu/bar is also on the right side. It is a bit bigger than the the length of the "start" button, I have some submenues [folders which you can make cascade with a registry option] with applications like Audio, Internet, Office, Video, Software and Hardware. On those folders I put shortcuts to the apps in the start menu, personally I also cant stand the START/PRGRAMS/ALL PROGRAMS/MY PROGRAM/PROGRAM mouse movement, and I dont like the way the programs menu gets clutered after you install all the applications so I have the same submenues there.
Having said that, I have seen people that use the desktop to group their programs. I certainly remember when I was using a friends computer who had all the icons in the desktop arranged in certain way (which for me seemed nonsensical), and i remember his frustration after I selected the "arrange icons automagically" haha...
I would like to say thank you to Schmuck5000 for letting us in on how utterly dumb and senseless the mind of a cheater can be. I am sure all our faithful
I agree with parent, the interview is stupid, it is just one person whining because the 'cheater' beat him. I agree that what would be interesting is to interview the developers of the cheats.
However, the reason why the people develop cheats is just because there is demand for cheats. So in a sense this cheater has a point, there is people who wants to cheat, it has been like that since the GameGear times of the NES (or before).
My first cheat was with the Price of Persia game on the PC, I remember looking the PRINCE.SAV file on Xtree Gold and editing it in Hex mode (without knowing what it was, just hacking my way trough it) to have more lives and time. Oh, and to bypass the manual letter verifiaciton =o)
Do you have a mouse on your computer? The wiimote isn't much more than a pointer.
It is because of people like you that science does not develop =oP.
The difference is that this "pointer & gyros" will come togheter will dozens of games *specially* designed to exploit its capabilities.
I am sure there are already input devices with gyroscopes and other more interesting technologies available for computers, but the difference (and that is what can make a console *better* than a computer for gaming) is that because of a standarized input, every game studio can (and will) use the input method to improve the gameplay of its game.
And input my friend is what really differentiates a computer game from an animation (not that lots of game developers are aware of it as they continue to add thousands of cutscenes like Metal Gear Solid 2 [darn that game was so boring, each step you gave you would have to watch a 30 seconds movie...]).
The notion that one learns more about, say, ancient Greek philosophy cramming for an exam than by researching and writing 25 pages on the influences of various presocratics on Platonic thought, is preposterous. The idea that, in a course on the practical use of statistics in the election process, one should test students rather than making them run their own polls, is misguided. Students learn by doing, and in most academic fields, doing means research and writing. Many college courses need fewer tests, not more.
I agree with you in general terms. When I was in high school, I had a physics teacher that always gave us the exam "take away". It was only one or two problems, but they were real life problems so "open ended" that you could solve them in many ways (of course applying whatever you were learning on that month, like Ohms law or the pendulum movement theory).
It was reallly cool because even tough we (students) could get togheter and search on the internet (back then when it was not full of shite) how to do it you *really* had to understand the problem and at the end to apply the formulae.
The teacher never said he didnt care if we memorised the formulae, he just wanted us to understand the process.
I believe that is the way to test. As the article (well, the summary cause I didnt really read the article) says, the current system is similar to that of security trough obscurity, and we all know that does not works, there will always be a student who is smart enough to bypass the current security measures. And moreso, some students (like myself I have to confess) will find more entertaining to spend their time bypassing the security measures instead of studying for the subject.
So, am I missing something. Aren't most of you complaining about these RIAA suits advocating theft? Or if not advocating, ignoring theft?
Hello,
From you post I can cleary see that you are indeed missing something. See, copyright infringement DOES NOT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO with theft.
So, from there I could just take down all your arguments, but yeah, I agree that it is wrong to do unauthorized reproduction and distribution of electronic and audio-visual media".
The problem here is the argument of the record companies, which say that each shared file directly causes revenue loss. That is completely incorrect.
Then of course come the issue of the extorsion practices they are doing and all of that, but of course it is a problem for people in the USA to do something to stop the company from doing that (of course only if they want).
As for "the artist", they have nothing to do with what is happening. The ones that sing the songs which are being claimed by the RIAA companies have no rights over the content, they gave all the distribution (copy in copyright) to the corporations, so they should just shut up and continue to perform.
y making a 'profitable', underpowered, overpriced console they are going to loose a lot of cross platform publishers.
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... are looking forward to see, this 'half assed' games will allow ALL OF US (hardcore,softcore,noncore) gamers to *learn* to use the controller in a friendly way (how many times I have tried to master the FPS controller just to be 707411! PWN3D by my brother who is a Playstation fan.
Sir, agree completely with you in that the Wii will make some publishers loose, at their stomach of course.
Other than that, I cant find a relation between those two concepts. More publishers will be attracted to the Wii ifnot for anything else for the mere dev kit price, and as everybody says, those "cross platform" publishers have certainly used the GameCube already, so (as Wii bashers love to say) being the Wii a reboxed gamecube with a fancy controller they wont need a lot of effort to port their game to such platform.
And about your calculations, what makes you even think that the console costed $200 to make?, if I recall correctly one analyst predicted the price to be $180 after looking for the harware used so hey, they are screwing you more! muwahahah.
Not that I care, what I care is that the Wii is the ONLY console that will allow me to play something that I can not play in my computer. I know that maybe the HaloXXXMegaBox360-2 wont be available for my PC but at the end it is just another FPS played with the typical controller (w00t I've got a £10 PS2 like controller from GAME).
Also, the Wii stupid sport games that (I have been reading) a lot of people think are not as valuable as one game, is in fact what some of those non-gamers
(including, my mother, a greek friend who is archeologist and didnt even know how to turn on a computer when she started her master one year ago), my girlfriend (granted, she does plays GBA and mario party/mario tennis with me in 1964))
The coolest thing (for me), is that it was since SNES that my mother played Pilot Wings and Mario Kart, but she found it too complicated, now with the Wii I have a chance to play along her again! and this time Nintendo is pushing to do everything they can to make her ENJOY the game =o).
Just as a comment, I once stupidly made my machine hijacked my crapware (can you believe I actually ran the "crack.exe" file that comes with the astalavista cracks =oS) and had to spend almost 4 hours cleaning my computer.
I used lots of anti cracpware programs that certainly cleaned a lot of things but my machine kept getting infected.
After some time I dont know why I searched in the "Screen properties" (dont remember the exact name as I am in Linux now), where you right click the desktop and then properties.
That will show you a window with desktop and screen properties but there is also a tab that lets you configure the "Active Desktop" thing in which you can make a web page you desktop page. Well, the problem was that the trojan installed a web page as active desktop (with my same background so I could not notice), but this page had some javascript code that kept infecting the computer.
I thing it was quite clever and since none of the anti spamware (ad aware, hijack this, MS-shitdefender, Freeav, avg, clamwin, etc) recognized it, I believe my comment might help someone avoid some headache.
Pricing. They said it would be under $250. When companies say that, it'll probably be $249.99. Which it basically is :) I'm sure they contemplated $199, $229, but decided for launch, they could probably get people to pay $249, but they'll also include a game. That's a business decision, which for the most part makes sense. It'll probably sell out at launch anyhow.
Darn, for me, this $250 price tag only means that I will have to pay something like £190 (~$358.817 USD xe.com) for the darn thing... I *am* really looking forward to get a M!! but £200 is what I was expecting to spend on my "Wii buying day" getting the wii, one game and maybe another controller...
That is why I am sad about the pricing. Lets wait for the London conference...
By the way
The Wii.com english section is UP NOW!! (you read it here first =op)
Unfortunately for me I am using Linux and I can not see the videos ("javascript and flash are used in this contents, you need to upgrade you Flash player...)
Too bad the article doesn't mention the large range of live CD/DVD distributions available for try-before-you-fly, or the range of Windows applications tested and working under Wine."
I would say, TOO GOOD that they didn't do it. I am sure that any user having the slightest curiosity of ditching windows will be overwhelmed after looking at more than 500 (or lets say 40 "main") linux distributions.
Or sure tell them how "tested and working" are those Windows applications under "Wine", so that when after they install their preffered linux distro and say, "okay now how do I install my 'tested and working' Winamp on Linux" their head will explode searching at zillions of forums/faqs/howtos/irc/etc.
The *only * way a WinApp-in-Wine would work is as google did it with picasa (i.e. the company will have to make something) or that a Linux company like Linsipre added such applications to their Click'n'Run service (of course they would have to buy licenses to each of the software they will sell). I like this idea a lot.
Only a matter of time till both Apple and MS initiate lawsuits on those that cracked their DRM. No doubt aided and abetted by the **AA. The silver lining is that if this gets to the SC, the DMCA *might* get struck down as unconstitutional.
Cracked DRM? where? What this program does is something similar to dump some part of the memory in your machine into a file. It does not cracks anything, it does not modify any program, it is not any key generator, it just dumps a section of your computer memory into the disk.
Guess what, Microsoft Office does exactly that when you click the "save document" function. =o)
After all would you buy your antivirus from the same guys who seem incapable of preventing their OS being succeptable in the first place?
I agree with you on that, see, Linux does not have any antivirus program (well, just the ones that scan for Windows viruses). However, you do not read about virus spreading on it.
What Microsoft should do is make their operating system secure, I mean, Linux and Apple have done it, it is possible.
Hey, take it easy on me pal, I was joking.
y pe-???? STACK-OVERFLOW
Not only have played some really good (as in well developed) games but I have also used (programmed) on DirectX and OpenGL enough to know that DirectX is a really good achievement of Microsoft. I am completely aware, for example, that DirectX > OpenGL in that it provides a complete multimedia SDK (Solution is the buzz^Wkeyword), whereas OpenGL provides only the 3D component.
I have worked also with the Linux equivalents, say SDL and Allegro and in my opinion no one of them is 40% as good as DirectX. Of coruse that fact is also due to the operating system support (joystic support, force feedback, unconventional input metods, media format support AND robustness).
But the fact is that, even tough DirectX is a very nice a SDK, I can testify that starting a project with it does qualify as a great problem, of course the same can be said for the other APIs, but I would describe them as "series of small problems" that may or may not be bigger than the DirectX problem when combined.
At least, in my experience, I find better (easier for me) to cope with the one huge beast than with the miriad of small penguins, mainly because with the beast I can go to one specific place to look for solutions, examples and help overall, whereas with OpenGL-SDL-OpenAL-Allegro-SDL_mixer-SDL_TTF-freet
What makes you think that any of the RIAA money goes to the artists?
Yeah, thats completely true, what the original poster should have wrote is "paying to the copyright owners".
Unfortunately for the artists, they conceded all the rights of their creations to the recording industries when they signed those contracts, so, the recording corporations are in their right to protect THEIR intellectual property.
I wonder how long would it take until artists wake up and see how hard are music corporations screwing them...
It goes to pay the record labels, who don't give one red cent to the artists (after all, it's not in their contracts.)
You hit the nail, it is that way and it must be that way, artists SIGN AWAY their rights when they enter into a contract wiht the recording house. They just care about creating a specific number of albums to fulfill the contract.
Everything that happens after that is the music corporation problem, of course these corporations sell them the image that they will "fight" for their (artists) rights, but the truth other.
Writing DirectX problems with the free DirectX SDK [
That has to be the BEST description of the resulting multimedia applications developed by using Microsoft's API.
By using your custom "XP Home / XP Pro" CD (I have never heard of a MS printed disc that does that)
Just FYI, the disk is a a disk that came on a MSDN subscription. When you subscribe to MSDN you get a lot of nice software.
from the linked article:
Its software is buggy, overpriced, and stress inducing.
Man, I could not agree more with this... just now I am trying to save my girlfriend's notebook Windows Home installation. I just received a DVB USB dongle, installed it on mine (winxp) and after that tried to install it on my girlfriends notebook. Unfortunately the installation was unsuccesful due to the ether (i.e. just *because*), and after I restarted the machine showed the BSOD and restarted (woops, driver programs...)
I tried to recover the installation with a Windows Home installation disk i have (you know, proceed as a normal install until it ask you if u want to fix the installed system), and after doing that now the #"$"#$"!#$ FUCKER !#!"%% windows asks me for my serial number... I enter the serial number UNDER the laptop and the fuck says it is not valid WHAT THE FUCK IT IS IN THE FREAKING STICKER UNDER THE NOTEBOOK...
Of course now I downloaded the XP key recover and discover app which I am running in my notebook to get a valid WIN XP HOME serial, then I will enter it and validate the program, and then I will crack the WGA.
Fuck, and what enrages me is that I have a fucking license to instlal windows Home... My installation disk actually constains WIN xp pro and win xp home... and I installed xp Home because tha tis what the notebook had... I am not pirating or nothing I just want it to work....
So next time some fucking moron says that windows just work they are just saying bullshit... unfortunately, I also have Ubuntu in my latop and of course the DVB usb dongle wont work with it (at least not until configure make make install compile kernel gcc''+p'ppo ó+++-p --path ----prefix ) so, Windows is the best option (no I dont have the money to buy a Mac)
Oh, and I just thought that, I dont know if the USB DVB dongle I bought work in Linux so maybe it would be impossible to use it there (it is an ebay cheapo usb-dvb dongle). Does anyone know anything about the compatiblity of those things?
I would really love to test this PVR thing as I have read a lot about them but have never used one of them (I dont watch almost any TV... usually just rent movies via screenselet).
Hey, first of anything I was not trolling (dont understand why the mod...).
The main difference is that it is *your* country.
If everyone who doesn't like it left, it's unlikely to change.
I agree with you 100%. It is one of the reasons I went out of my country (sounds contradictory no?) to pursue a PhD; it is beacuse I want to be an expert in a field that is not fully exploited in my own country, in order to return and be an "asset" and have the tools to put my grain of sand to make it better.
I dont believe in politics (ha, I always have loved that Buscemi's line in Reservoir dogs), but I do believe in that if everyone of us concentrated in making work everything will work.
So, I applaud you for trying to change your country. As I stated in my previous "trolly" post, I dont like your government (which does not mean I dislike Americans, I have had really nice friends, actually I just sent a card [via snail mail] to a friend in USA =o)). But it would have no sense (at least that is what I think) to go to live in the USA and keep bitching about the government and actively trying to boycott it, i.e. It is not MY buisness.
All I want to know is, is where is the win32 version? this would be SWEET running on WinME!
I dont understand why the funny mod...
I have just bought a DVB usb dongle for my Notebook and I would like to try it out. I have Kubuntu installed, however it is very unstable and I usually only log in to "play" with it (wireless does not work, graphics card incompatible, etc etc etc...).
So I would have the same question, is there any kind of Win32 version?, now that I think about it, MythTV would be excellent for a "Vmware Appliance", is there anything like that out?>